On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:01:10PM -0800, James J. Besemer wrote: > "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:40:11AM -0800, James J. Besemer wrote: > > > While, OTOH I agree these more robust formats are the future, it's > > > insane to force them on users and not allow them to turn them off. > > > > As someone who reads half of my mail in Mutt in a vt screen, and the > > other half on my Minstral equipped Palm III, I disagree wildly with > > your characterisation of non-ASCII email as "more robust". > > > > 15 years of varied experience with email administration causes me to > > characterise such email as "more frangible". > > Ok. For argument's sake, strike "more robust". ;o) > > However you characterize them, don't you agree they "are the future" > (which was the main point of my sentence)? For better or worse, I > detect an inexorable trend.
I concur with the other guy who noted that trends needn't be inexorable. > More importantly, it seems you would agree there should be a way to > filter them out in list managers, which was my position in starting > this overall thread. If everyone seems to want to filter them out of mailing lists, perhaps there's some moral in that. I don't think, no, that HTML email is at all good. MIME, yeah, no problem; there are *standards* there. There is *no* standardized way to wrap an HTML email so that you can do anything intelligent with it, which is inherent, I think, in the (lack of) design thereof. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
